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| Chinas Hu meets with senior N. Korean official in Beijing |
| 2009-10-29 |
| [Kyodo: Korea] Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday met with Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Beijing. It is the first time for Hu to meet with a senior North Korean official since the North conducted its second nuclear test in May. In his opening remarks at the meeting held at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Hu referred to Choe as an ''old friend of China'' and referred to his visit as yet another significant meeting between both countries. ''Your visit in leading a delegation from the DPRK's Workers' Party of Korea is another important interaction between both parties after Premier Wen Jiabao's successful visit to your country,'' Hu said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Wen made a high-profile visit to Pyongyang earlier this month, during which he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who is also the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. Shortly after that visit, Wen told his Japanese and South Korean counterparts at a meeting in Beijing that Kim had said he hoped to hold multilateral talks, including the stalled six-party talks on its nuclear program, while watching developments related to a proposed direct dialogue between the United States and North Korea. The official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday that the North Korean delegation led by Choe is in China as part of a visit to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. China is North Korea's closest ally and is also its largest trading partner and the main source of food and fuel aid for the impoverished nation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 FREEREPUBLIC > REPORT: NORTH KOREA'S LATEST MISSLES TESTS FAILED [TWO CRASHED, TWO FAILED, ONE DUD]. Again, there's always PAKISTAN for Kimmie. FREEP POSTER > opined that its becom clear that ECONOMIC-[super]POWER WANNABE CHINA no longer cares about NOKOR as much as before, that it now views NOKOR as a thorn in its side = ambitions??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-29 03:26 |
| #1 WORLD NEWS > ANALYSIS: [US]JAPAN ALLIANCE FACES CHALLENGE OF CHINA'S RISE; + JAPAN DEMONSTRATES ITS NEW 24/7 ABILITY TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREA'S MISSLES [also read, CHINA'S]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-29 02:40 |